Car tuning company

skiddlydiddly

Who ran the engine in, you or the tuning company?Its possible your issues stem from a bad runin period(ie too gentle).It would tie in with the low compression too.
I hopw you get this sorted as thats a really nice spec and should have made for a great car to drive.

Rossy.

I can't see any pics but i'm taking a wild guess and thinking it's a 172/182 clio sport

Am i correct?

Had one myself

If it is a clio sport then i also know what company you are refering to

It's based on the way to Bournemouth

Am i correct?

Hammyman

Strider590 wrote: »

I spent £350 at a so called specialist in Ford x-flow engines, car came back with less power and a b1tch of a misfire, they're damaged 2 ingition leads, replaced a high performance ingintion coil with a standard one and caught the wiring for the temp sensor in the alternator belt (which required tearing the wiring loom apart to repair), I also found 2 screws from the twin 40 webbers which had been lost in the engine bay... God knows what else they did wrong.

If its who I think it is, the same was claimed by them about Pinto engines too. Fortunately I'd had a heads up and went elsewhere even though it was a 500 mile round trip. Still, the return journey allowed me to bed in the engine nicely.

Simulacraton

skiddlydiddly wrote: »

Who ran the engine in, you or the tuning company?Its possible your issues stem from a bad runin period(ie too gentle).It would tie in with the low compression too.
I hopw you get this sorted as thats a really nice spec and should have made for a great car to drive.

It could well be in testing they knackered it as they ran such a poor map as well with it

The main thing is a camshaft has been !!!!!!ed due to the cam pulley bolt being cross threaded in the bolt hole. £550 of cams probably screwed.

The good news though is I have just fitted my new engine and done some other bits, like replaced the cams as well and fixed the cracked ITB inlet manifold, added another vacuum hose to the brake servo (matey only fitted one previously, with pipe that was too soft to hold a vacuum).

I had it mapped yesterday.

Originally after my £6k costs last year I only gained 15 bhp. Happy to say this time I gained a further 56 bhp on top of that

It's not a 172/182 Clio.

And for those of you guessing who it is that I had issue with, it isn't K-Tec.

skiddlydiddly

So you gained 71bhp on a N/A engine?Bladdy hell those cams must be wild.Is it one of the newer clios with 197 bhp as standard IIRC?

Simulacraton

72.5 bhp to be more accurate

We could go higher but it would just be stupid really as it is a road car primarily and often used for the daily commute, it's enough to prove a point to newer cars should it need too. Mapped on RON 95 fuel so the ignition advance was held back when detonation started, would be higher advance on higher octane but I wanted to keep it able to use cheaper fuel if I need to.

On the way to get it mapped we gave it a basic road map to keep it from destroying itself. Even with massively !!!!!! ignition it wanted to pull.

The cams are peaky, but normal driving is simply not an issue, it's fine.

No, it's an old F7R engine. Older than the F4R design in the 172 onwards.

I'll do another dyno test soon, but this time without crappy fuel, low tyre pressure to bring the bhp figure down and without a massive wideband bung stuffed up the exhaust!

skiddlydiddly

Ah a Williams .I used to have a mk1 clio 16v and tried to convince a guy at work who had a williams to swap with me plus cash but he wouldn't.It was a shame as he only kept cars a few months whereas I would have probably kept it forever.I had a 172 as well which was a much better car than I thought it would be but ended up being too small once the stork dropped a package off at my house.

Am taking my 21 year old car for mapping today, similar engine build to yours.Hope it doesn't fall to bits on the way .

Simulacraton

skiddlydiddly wrote: »

Ah a Williams .I used to have a mk1 clio 16v and tried to convince a guy at work who had a williams to swap with me plus cash but he wouldn't.It was a shame as he only kept cars a few months whereas I would have probably kept it forever.I had a 172 as well which was a much better car than I thought it would be but ended up being too small once the stork dropped a package off at my house.

Am taking my 21 year old car for mapping today, similar engine build to yours.Hope it doesn't fall to bits on the way .

Good luck! Let us know the results

skiddlydiddly

It made 315bhp/300lbft at 1.1 bar.The engine can take a lot more but the standard injectors were maxxed out and the larger ones I had bought couldn't be used due to a damaged pintel cap so I need to go back again to get it tweaked .I also jumped form 30mpg on the motorway to 38mpg which was a bonus .